Training

Based on the many years of experience with standards in medical image communication, I offer training courses in the field of DICOM and IHE. Actually, I conduct DICOM training courses already for more than 15 years. That way, I could help several hundred people to get started and transferred know-how.

In addition to distinct training courses and workshops for companies, organizations and individuals, I also conduct training courses on various DICOM topics in cooperation with the R&D institute OFFIS on a regular basis:

DICOM Compact: general overview on hospital IT and DICOM standard (1 day)

The dates for the offered training courses can be found in the right sidebar and in the News section.

The training courses usually take place in Oldenburg, Germany. However, in the past, I have also conducted training courses in various German cities (e.g. Berlin, Frankfurt, Hanover, and Munich) as well as in other European countries (e.g. Finland, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Turkey).

What is DICOM?

DICOM is the world-wide accepted standard for medical image communi­cation. The standard defines data structures and services for the vendor-independent exchange of medical images and related information. There are also definitions for waveforms, structured medical reports and other medical data / documents. Most imaging devices and many other systems in the healthcare domain implement one or more DICOM services. The standard text is freely available from the NEMA web site dicom.nema.org.

Who am I?

My name is Jörg Riesmeier and my first contact with DICOM was as a student of Computer Science in the mid 90s. Since then, I was concerned with many different topics of the standard. For example, my diploma thesis dealt with the processing and, in particular, the display of the very flexibel but also complex DICOM image format. In the context of my doctoral thesis, I studied DICOM Structured Reporting (SR) and its visualization in detail. Furthermore, for many years now, I am one of the main developers of the Open Source DICOM toolkit DCMTK.